With this mindwork experience I offer a new and different experience (which is one of the ways to create new neural networks): exercises that use drumming to enhance coordination and movement. It does not matter how successful you are with this exercise, it only matters that you challenge yourself. Do the drumming with your hands or play the drums in your imagination. Both will be successful. Be sure to have fun doing something entirely different this week.
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What is a Tongue-Twister?
A tongue-twister is a phrase that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly. Tongue-twisters rely on similar but distinct phenomena, unfamiliar constructs or other strange combinations of the sound and meaning of words. Tongue-twisters use a combination of alliteration and rhyme. They have two or three sequences of sounds. The same sequences are repeated with an exchange of similar sounds.
Why does saying tongue twisters out loud help Build Neural Networks?
Talking loudly improves your voice significantly. Memorization of seemingly nonsensical sentences forges new neural networks. This benefits motor skills and memory acuity as well as expressiveness.
Do this now: Repeat the tongue twister below seven (7) times using a loud, strong voice. Challenge yourself with memorizing the tongue twister.
She sells sea shells on the sea shore. The shells that she sells are sea shells I’m sure.
Once memorized, say this tongue twister out loud every time you open up a door. This can be pure fun – especially if you are with someone else. It also activates the power of your brain’s plasticity. Your neurons will thank you.
Robert
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